Re: Should there be a Perl Monks Award?

Nah.

I know there are quite a few monks here that I'd be happy to buy beer for, either for helping out in a pinch, posting fascinating questions or meditations, helping develop cool modules, work on Perl 6, or even for responding to a post by posing The Right Question which illuminates the subject matter and allows the answer to become self-evident.

I will admit to regular visits to Selected Best Nodes for some good reading and for occasionally upvoting undiscovered gems. But an award seems a bit too formulaic for this near anarchic community (and I mean that in a good way, really).

I don't believe giving merlyn a Perlmonks award would be useful -- we already know he's got a tremendous grasp of the language and is in demand to write about and teach Perl.

All we really need to do is to say 'Thanks'. every time someone in the community helps out. Sometimes that's all that's necessary.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

Updated in response to AnonyMonk below OK, OK, I guess I was responding to Re^2: Should there be a Perl Monks Award?, not the original post.

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Re^2: Should there be a Perl Monks Award? by been42 (Curate) on Mar 13, 2007 at 21:27 UTC
I get the feeling I should have been a bit clearer. I wasn't saying that we need to give merlyn an award, or that he doesn't deserve an award, or really anything specifically about him. I was just using him as an example of why giving a PM award for Perl sites or Perl articles could be a bad idea. He happens to be both a prominent PerlMonk and the author of a ton of Perl books and articles. Substitute the name of any other monk/author if you'd like. My argument was this: The "best" Perl articles that I have read (i.e. the ones that get printed and put in my Perl Stuff binder) are often written by people who happen to be members here. I was speculating that there could be enough monk-generated content getting these awards that it would look like we just invented an award to give to ourselves. But I could also be wrong about that. No assumptions, no suggestions, just another thing to think about if you're considering giving out an award.	[reply]
Re^2: Should there be a Perl Monks Award? by Anonymous Monk on Mar 13, 2007 at 19:34 UTC
I didn't know that merlyn was a Perl-related site (I think you might have missed the use, in the parent node, of that last word).	[reply]


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